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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06
Mrs. Logan's Circumstances.

Mrs. General LogaIl's friends, OIL in
vestigating the Generals affairs after
his death, are surprised to learn the
condition of his estate and through
what great struggles the family have
been passing and in what pitifully
Strengthened circumstances Mrs. Lo-
gan is left. When his financial VEN
lures went wrong, Mrs. Logan, helpful
in all things, always tried to come to
the rescue of their common home in
this emergency, and has entered into
some sort of a contract with a publish
err to do certain amount of literary
work between now and next August.
The good woman had already earned
$500 by her pen on this contract,
which, she said, the General signed
with his own hand and drew up for her,
and she had laid it aside to help pay
the interest on the purchase money of
the homestead, due January first. But
it appears that the necessary expenses
incurred in the illness of the General
have nearly swept this little sum away.
The society world of Washington,
which saw Mrs. Logan giving weeks of
her time and her enthusiasm to the
great charity of the Garfield hospital,
which she made successful, little knew
that she, in the mean time, was work
ing at all odd moments to earn some
money with her pen to save her home.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06
How Drunkards are Made.

The stan Ting statement copied be-
low from the New York Herald, is de-
serving ofsattention "NOw, you watch
those children. They'll drink hall
that beer before they get home, and
their mother will scOld me for not Civ
ing a good pint, and I've given nearly
a quart" said the bartender of a down
town saloon Yesterday, referring to
two little girls of six and eight, thinly
clad, who came in for a pint of beer.
The reporter did watch the young ones.
They had scarcely got outside of the
saloon door, when the one that carried
the tin-pail lifted it to her lips and
took draught. Then her companion
enjoyed few swallows. A little fur
ther on they entered tenement house
hallway and both again took sip. 81
have lots of such customers" said the
bartender, when the reporter returned
to the saloon to light his cigar. "Girls
and boys and women form half our
trade. We call it family trade. 1t
pays our expenses. Our profits come
from the drinkers at the bar. But |
tell you what-half the children who
come here drink. That's how drunk
ards are made. Their mothers and ia
theirs send 'em for beer. They see the
old folks tipple, and begin to taste the
beer themselves.
Few of the children who come in
here for beer or ale carry full pint
home. Sometimes two or three come
in together, and if you watch 'em you
will hear one begging the one who car
ries the pail for sip. We must sell
ii, however, when their parents send
for it. We are bound to do SO. Bust
ness is business. We don't keep
temperance shop"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06
How to Become Courageous.

Demand imperiOusly and persistent
ly any quality of character in which
you may be lacking, and you attract
increase of such quality. Demand
more patience, or decision, or judg
ment, or courage, or hopefulness, or
exactness, and you will increase in
such qualities These qualities are real
elements. They belong to the subtler
and as yet unrecOgnized chemistry of
nature.
The man discouraged, hopeless and
whining has unconsciOusly demanded
encouragement and hopelessness. SO
he gets it. This is his unconscious
mental training to evil. Mind is
'magnetic," because it attracts to it
self whatever thought it fixes itself
upon, or whatever it opens itself to.
Allow yourself to fear, and you open
the door and invite fear in; you then
demand fear. Set your mind on the
thought of courage, see yourself in
mind or imagination as courageous,
and you become more courageous.
You demand courage.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06
Little Things Worth Knowing.

That bag of hot sand relieves neu-
ralgia.
That warm bOrax water will remove
Sdandruff.
That salt should be eaten with nuts
\ to aid digestion.
That milk which stands too long
Mixes bitter butter.
~ That rusty flat-irOns should be rub
bed over with beeswaX and lard.
That it rests you in sewing to change
your position frequently.
That a hot, strong lemonade taken
at bedtime will break up bad cold.
That tough meat is made tender by
lying n few minutes in vinegar water.
That little soda water will relieve
= sick headache caused by indigestion.
That cup of strong coffee will re-
I'VE the odOr of onions from the
EYlat IL cup of hot water drank be-
Ore meals will prevent nausea and
dyspepsia.
That well ventilated bedrooms will
prevent morning headaches and lassi
t~tude.
That cOnsumptive night sweats may
be arrested by spOngng the sbody
nightly in salt water.
nat one IN IalhC snOuIu De ldlu
fiat on his back, then loosen his clothes
aud let him alone.
That Il fever patient can be made
cool and comfortable by frequent
spOnging off with soda water.
THAT cold tea should be saved for
your vine!ar barrel. 1t sOurs easily
and gives OdOr and flavor.
That to beat the whites of eggs
quickly add pinch of salt. Salt cools,
and cold eggs froth rapidly.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06
Why Eve Kept No Hired Girl.

A lady writer furnishes some of the
reasons why Eve did not keep hired
girl. She says there has been great
deal said about the faults of women
and why they need SO much waiting
on. Some one Ga man of course) has
the presumption to ask why, when Eve
was manufactured Odt of a spare rib,
a servant was not made at the same
time to wait on heri She didn't need
amy. A bright writer has said Adam
never came whining To Eve with a
ragged stocking to he darned, buttons
to be sewed on, gloves to be mended
"right away-qulck, now" He never
read the newspapers till the sun went
down behind the palm tree, then,
stretching himself, yawned out: SIS
supper ready yet, my dear I" Not he.
He made the fire and hung the kettle
over it himself, we venture, and pulled
the radishes and peeled the potatoes,
and did everything else he Ought to
do. He MIXED the cows and fed the
chickens, and looked after the pigs
himself, and never brought home half
"a dozen friends to dinner when Eve
hadn't any fresh pOmegranates. He
never stayed out till II o'clock at
night, and then scolded because Eve
was sitting up and crying inside the
gates. He never called Eve mp from
The cellar to put away his slippers.
Not hc. When he took them off he
put them under the fig tree beside his
Sunday boots. In short, he did not
think she was especially created fol-
the purpose of waiting upon him, and
he wasn't under the impression that II
disgraced ia man to Tighten IA wife 5
cares little. That's the reason Eve
did not need hired girl, and with it
ants do.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06
THE NEW SOUTH.

At the New England dinner i'm New
York Mr.. Henry Grady, editor of the
Atlanta Constitution, in the course of
an address on "The New South" said {:
''But what is the sum of our work 2
| We have found ont that i'll the general
summing up the free negro counts
more than he did as a slave. We have
planted the school house on the hill
top and made it free to white and
black. We have sOwed towns and
cities in the place of theories and put
business above politics. We have
challenged your spinners in Massachu-
sets and your iron makers in Pennsyl-
vania. We have learned that the
$4O0, 200, 900 annually received from
our cotton crop will make us rich.
Then the supplies that make it are
home raised. We have reduced the
commercial rate of interest from "a to
6 per cent, and are floating per cent.
bonds. We have learned that one
Northern immigrant is worth fifty
foreigners, and have smoOthed the
path to southwark, wiped out the
place where Mason and DixOn's line
used to be, and hung out our latch
string to you and yours. We have
reached the point that marks perfect
harmony in every household, when the
husband cOnfesses that the pies which
his own wife cooks are as good us
those his mother used to bake and we
admit that the sun shines It's brightly
and the moon as softly us it did before
the war; We have established thrift
in city and country. We have fallen
in love with work. We have restored
comfort to home from which culture
and elegance never departed. We
lave let economy take root and spread
among us as rank as the crab grass
which sprang from Sherman's cavalry
camps, until we are ready to lay odds
on the Georgia Yankee as he squeezes
pure olive oil out of his cotton seed,
against any Down Easter that ever
snapped wooden nutmegs for flannel
sausages in the valleys of Vermont.
Above all, we know that we have
achieved in these piping times of
peace fuller independence for the
South than that which our fathers
sought to win in the forum by their
elOquence or compel on the field by
their swords. 1t is IL rare privilege,
sir, to have had part, however humble,
in this work. Never was nObler duty
cOntided to human hands than the up
lifting and upbuilding of the PROSTATE
and bleeding south, misguided, per-
haps, but beautiful in her suffering,
and honest, brave, and generous al
ways. In the record of her social, in
dustrial, and political illustration we
await with confidence the verdict of
the world"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06

Speaking of the Berwick panther, an
old lady in York county says this is an
annual scare, originated by the old
folks to keep the girls in the house it
was the same when she was girl, but
it didn't work then and won't work
now
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06

A French crank's estimate of hu-
mainly in 1886 foots up: "a lot OF
fools who spend most of their time and
money in making iron balls to go
through steel plates and in making
steel plates To keep out iron balls"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06

Rose Elizabeth Cleveland in her last
poem talks about "the pulpy, pretty
women of the period" She also says,
ga man is just precisely what his food
will make him."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06
The Little Boy obeyed Orders.

will tell you funny story, which
solemnly assure you is true. At the
Christmas dinner given by we'll
known charity organization, young
lady, who was on the reception COM
mittee, had among her other duties to
attend to the removal and care of the
outside clothing of the children. In
the hustle of several arrivals she hasti-
" welcomed one small boy and told
him to take off his things. In a few
minutes, hearing shout of laughter,
she turned around and found he had
completely nndressed and stood as
naked as when he was born. Her
friends considerably refrain from ask
ing her if that small boy Obeyed or
ders.-l Boston Letter.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06
Hair Dye.

prominent physician is reported
as saying that Gen. LOgaD's death
was caused by the too frequent use of
hair dye. His hair in spots was as
white as bunch of cotton, and he
used dye daily. Should post mortem
be made it will be shown that the
membranes of the brain are covered
with "a lead substance, which is the
principal ingredients in all hair dyes.
Gov. Geary of Pennsylvania died from
the same cause
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06
HARDWICK TOWN BONDS
FOR SALE,

The Town of Hardwick, Caledonia county, Yer
mont, has outstanding Forty eight Thousand Dol
lars of Five Per Cent Bonds issued to aid the
structiOn of the LamOille Valley Railroad, upon
which interest has been regularly and promptly
paid
By an act of the State Legislature towns are au-
thOrZed to issue new bonds for the purpose of re-
funding retiring their outstanding bonds.
At the last March meeting the town of Hard wick
authorized the refunding of, Thirty Thousand Dol
Four Per Cent Interest payable semannually.
The new bonds will be dated March LIST, 1897 to be
coupons registered and in denominations of
500, $500, $780, $1,000 payable after five years and
within twenty years from their date, at the option
of the town.
The undersigned will receive subscriptions for
the new fve-twenty bonds described above at the
office of A L. Way Treasurer of the town of Hard
wick, on the End day of August. 1886. Books will
be kept open to present bOnd-hOders until Sept l.
subscribed for before that date
The new bonds will be furnished to subscribers
at the First National Bank of Boston, at the of
flee of A. L. Way Treasurer of the town the 1st
day of March, 1887.
In offering these bonds to the public we do so
with the assurance that no investment of money
can be safer or better. The town of Hardwck is
among the best farming towns in the Lamoille Val
ley. 1t has population of about fifteen hundred.
The Grand List and valuation of Real and Personal
Property is about s61s 900. The town has no debt
except its Railroad bonds above described.
BY the laws of Vermont the property of every
nhabitant is holden and may be taken a debt
against town.
CO GMAaMMFT6GG6hMssR 1 Sele ct
G. S. WHEATLEY, Hardwick.
A few thousand dollars of the above described
bonds for sale at par for the next thirty days.
SELECTMEN.
Hardwick, Jan. 1st, 1887. 1882
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06
SPECIAL.

We are able to furnish Sunday School Ii,
brarles from the American Sunday School Union
at their net prices freight paid. Books can be
amined before purchasing. We also furnish
Reading Clubs and Libraries with Books and Peri
odicals at special rates. Correspondence from in
terested parties solicited
We take subscriptions for all kinds of Papers
and Magazines at reduced rates, and carry in stock
large line of staple goods at fair prices.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06

No. 76 State Street. opposite Kilby Street Boston
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Copies of the claims of any Patent furnished by
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Washington. No agency in the United States pos
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EDDY Solicitor of Patents.
TIE STI MONIALS.
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Commissioner of Patents
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Boston October 10, 1876
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Boston, Jan. /. 18S7.-1y
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-06
The Story without an End.

We have half il mind, says a Con
necticut philosopher, To begin to write
story that may never end, founded
OH facts that are ever obvious. Hip
pOdromus, taking his morning walk in
the streets of LncignanO, comes upon
TheoGectes, a laborer, and says to
him: "Why are yOu always at work n
TheOdectes answers: 81 am always at
work to get money to buy food to give
me strength to do more work that
may get more money to buy more food
to get more strength to do more work
to get more money to buy more food
to get more strength to do more work
To get more money to buy" This is
the beginning of the story without end.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-23
Evils Of Water Drinking.


Sir Henry Thompson, the great English
teetotalef physician. who refuses to treat
anyone in illness who drinks alcoholic bev-
erages, says, nevertheless, that the only wa
ter which is perfectly safe to drink is natu.
raj mineral water. In the shape of a wrig-
Cling worm, invisible to the eye, even when
held to the light, and only to be detected by
the microscope, water drinker may have
given more permanent lodging to a snake
than even the hospitable whale gave to Jo-
nah.
The widespread alarm caused by the well
authenticated fact that such is often the case
has given great impetus to the trade in
mineral waters, the most of which contain
more elements of injury than the embryo
snake, AMI lack the one essential quality that
water for drinking or medicinal purposes
should have, viz, purity.
Nature furnishes but rare examples of alb.
solutely pure water. The Underwood Springs
at Falmouth Foreside on the coast Of Maine
and the spring in the Red Sea, off the coast
of Arabia, that bubbles up through the sur.
rounding salt water, are the only natural
waters yet discovered in which may not lurk
disease and destruction to the human family
The learned Sir Henry goes on to say that
the unknown and unsupported reptile Stowa-
way, swallowed weeks or months before in a
glass OF impure water, is no doubt the cause
of the numerous cases on record of inanition
and apparent death and he cites the case OF
a young girl personally known to him who
died, apparently. and remained cold and
lifeless until put in her coffin. when hel
mouth opened and a small snake some SIX
inches long appeared. A French doctor who
had attended to the case was fortunately
present, and drew the reptile out with hi:
fingers, thus rescuing the girl from being
buried alive.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-23

than the Liberal majority in Nova Scotia.
On the same day Premier Fielding spoke for
nearly an hour in support of resolution de-
manding from the Dominion government
measures for material improvement in the
Province financial and commercial arrange
ments, and threatening secession unless such
aid should be granted. The galleries and
Hobbies of the Assembly chamber were
crowded with eager listeners, who vigorous
ly applauded all expressions favoring repeal.
That the sentiment of Nova Scotia is now
Overwhelmingly in favor of leaving the Ca
madam Union is certain. Could there be
any more natural result, if these weak Mari
time Provinces should essay an existence
independent Of the rest of Canada, than an
appeal for admission to the Union Of the
States. The question which the New York
Sun would have the great political parties
ponder may be, not whether the whole or
parts of Canada may be acquired, but wheth-
er they are wanted.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-23

What is the matter with the young men in
our navy? Lieutenant Danenhower, with a
record behind him to be proud of for the re-
mainder Of his life, has killed himself at An
napolis but few days ago Lieutenant Gale
wood shot himself on the Norfolk boat;
hardly more than year ago Cadet Schock, a
young Pennsylvania, who had shown so
much ability that our government had sent
him to complete his education at the ROYAL
College at Greenwich, England, took his own
life on the eve of his graduation; and it is
but recently that Cadet Ridder, also gradu-
ate Of Annapolis, blew his brains out while
taking the prescribed course on the Swatara.
TO begin their profession these men have
had the best training that the government
can afford. Have they had too much train
ing, too much brain work? Or is It the fu-
ture and not the past that troubles themp
Promotion is very slow in the navy, SO slow
that 1t is not uncommon for young officers to
regret that they did not choose careers in
civil life This is fact quite generally un-
derstood. In response to Congressman Bou-
telle's widely disseminated announcement in
the Fourth district, but one candidate has
presented himself for recommendation to the
Naval School at Annapolis. If it were gem
orally believed that the naval service afford
ed promising opportunity for desirable
career, it is not conceivable that there should
be in allIthe counties of Penobscot, Aroos-
took, Piscataquis, Hancock and Washington,
but one young man, with ambition and con-
fidence enough to present himself as can
didato for Annapolis. There is no doubt that
these disadvantages in the service of the
government are as well understood by the
men in the navy as by those outside. 1t
may be that here lies the reason for the la
mentable deaths of so many young officers
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-23

Since capital punishment was abolished in
this State there have been two murders. As
one of the murderers Immediately proceeded
to execute capital punishment on himself,
and the otheris probably of unsound mind it
can hardly be claimed that these crimes
show that the abolition of the gallows is pro-
motion of capital offences. They do show,
however, that insane people should be sent
to lunatic asylum, and not be permitted to
roam at will
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-23

Our esteemed morning contemporary ac-
cuses us of comforting rumsellers by some
remarks on primd fdcie evidence. 1t is diff
cult to see, however, how it can console a
rumseller to know that the Supreme Court
OF Massachusetts, has sustained an act of the
Legislature of that State very similar to the
act passed by our Legislature declaring the
payment of special tax prinaa .facie evil
dence that the person paying it is seller Of
intoxicating LIQUORS.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-23

just before polling day the Dominion gov
eminent paid out large amounts on account
of works at st. John and other places, with
out authority of Parliament, and settled up
claims for land taken for the St. Charles
branch railway which had been held in
allegiance for five years. The Liberals con-
tenc that this money was paid out and these
railway claims settled at that time to influ-
ence the elections.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-23

(which of the great political parties is go
ing to be the first to make the peaceable ae-
QUESTION of Canada plank in the plat
form?" Is question asked very ostenta-
tiously by the New York Sun. The indica-
tons now are that before many years por-
ton at least of Canada may be willing to
come without great efforts at acquisition on
the part of any great party. A resolution
has been actually introduced in the Proyin-
cial Assembly of Nova Scotia, fayoring an
nexation to the United States Thursday
afternoon jeffrey McColl, Radical Liberal,
introduced the following:
IHesolyed, That if this House, after using all
enorls possible TO keep the expenditure Of this
province within the receipts, shall have failed to
~ ,ha 20 lne whole matter should be submitted to
~ o a p@sopie with view to repeal Of the union
dfna.a q .step TO asking the government of the
hioh \, o.aees 20 admit us as a State of that Union
tiny. uA uieiiiaeo commercial oes-
There is Of course no prospect that ,ueb I.
resolution VIII be passed by the present A.
sernbly, by whom it is treated rather os
laughable matter. But Mr.. McColl is an
avowed annexationist and thorouphlv IN
earnest And he goes but a step farther
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-23

Halifax proposes to erect monument to
Sebastian Cabot. Although he discovered
continent, it is said that no monument has
ever been erected to his memory, and that
a small island off the east coast of New
fnnndland alone hears his name.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-23
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SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 90.

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